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- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career in finance. As View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
fulfilled that entrepreneurial dream before she turned 30. As founder and CEO of Peek, Bashir has gotten the full startup experience in a short time. With Peek.com she is already disrupting the $100 billion global View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
authors discuss how these new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit from one activity (e.g., watching shows) without incurring the cost of the other (e.g., watching ads) and offer strategies for established businesses to respond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM scholarship program a primary focus of its fundraising activities because the program’s impact in the region is so far-reaching. “Our members have been most motivated to give back to the community through SPNM,” says Panoff. “This is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
communities,” says Christina Thirkell, Director of Strategic Programs for the HBSAB. Thirkell worked with outgoing HBSAB President, James Driscoll (PLDA 15) to develop and organize the series last year, after COVID-19 forced all club View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more than seventy executives, polled... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Profile
Laura Sandoval
In the late ‘80s, Laura Sandoval’s mother emigrated from Peru to the United States to find a better a future. “We faced some tough immigration challenges,” Laura says. When her father later joined her mother in the US, she said, “My father went from being the View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
Rane: Giving consumers a way to connect with his business. Photo courtesy Jimmy Rane By now, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) is used to the questions. Wherever he goes, people ask, “Where’s your yellow shirt? Where’s your yellow hat?” Rane, the View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
In late February 2020, the Japanese government announced it would close every school in that country to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the other side of the world, in his Billerica, Massachusetts, office, Rob Waldron (MBA 1992) saw the news. Waldron, the View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
performance against the strategy. Some organizations call this person the "Chief of Staff." In large organizations, the process is run by a new organization called the Office of Strategy Management—which reports directly to the CEO or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
As CEO and chairman of the board of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., Kent Thiry (MBA 1983) has built the second-largest kidney dialysis company in the world. He oversees 2,074 outpatient dialysis centers that serve 163,000 people in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
well the challenges that lay ahead. DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read how the president and CEO of Trusted Media Brands is spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
appears to be a significant component of financing activities in capital markets today; it could also affect how we think about government policies like quantitative easing, as well as other corporate View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
not enough if we want a competitive advantage. In Smarter Together, Coupa Software CEO Rob Bernshteyn explains how we will soon be able to draw upon the intelligence of the community—collectively what we, and the organizations we work... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
Overdorf (HBS MBA '99), CEO of Innosight, LLC, a company founded by Christensen in January 2000 to advise other firms about dealing with disruption. However, countered a panelist, citing the Palm Pilot as an example, some technological... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Airlines, the mayor of Houston, Houston's leading entrepreneurs, HBS faculty members, and distinguished CEOs from energy, technology, and industrial fields. "The way we keep the membership interested in the club is by having great... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe, who was asked about a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman